Post * bpbj — Curious Curator

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TIL the Pyramids of Giza were not built by slaves, but by paid workers from poor Egyptian families in the North and South.

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lWba TIL that Déja Vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like its happened.

mxX7p TIL that the Where’s Waldo book series was released with different names internationally. In Britain you were looking for Wally, Germans searched for tiny Walter, the French scoured the pages for petite Charlie, and if you were a young South African you tried to spot a little Willie.

6EWQQ TIL that 7.5 tons of steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center was used in constructing the USS New York.

7mpM TIL that up until the 14th century a ceremony was practiced in the Catholic Church to unite together two people of the same sex (normally men) in church-recognized friendship.

yyDp TIL llamas are born with an extra pair of fighting teeth that they use to bite off other males’ testicles, making them the only fertile male in the group.